Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 22, 1886, Page 4

KEW Vonx Orrice, ROost 8, TRINUNE BUILDING Wastaxoron Orrice, No. 513 Fovrterstn St wrlntgm.;d every morning, »w-,-y.":u'm\iw. '“u‘n y Mondny morniug pupor publistied i tho TERME 1Y MATL! $10.00 Throe Months. ... $2.0 5.00 One Mouth Voo 10 gnn Yenar... . ix Months. . Tox WeekLY Ber, Published TERMS One Year, with premium .Y ear, without premivm ix Mon My vory Wednosaay. All communications relating to news nnd odl. torial matters should bo addressed to tho Eote DUSTNFSS LETTRRS! Al bu tiness Iottcrs and somittances ghould bo nadsessed 1o ‘Tie EE PUBLISHING COMPANY, AfTA. Drafte, checks and posto e 10 be mado payable to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAYY, PROPRIETORS B. ROSEWATER, EpiTon. SURVEYOR-GENERAL GARDNER still bolds the fort AL the talk of shutting down the gas- works is simply gas. Pavixa and repaving means ing twice. Itis an expensive combination, Tae viaduets are to go up on Eleventh and Sixteenth strects, but how about the new depot? A BuiLpiNG boom and a brick famine in Omaha ean no more go together than oil and water will mix satisfactorily. DisApvANTAGES of & wooden pavement: 1t is dirty, unhealthy, short lived, expen- siveto repair. Advantage 1ts first cost is small. Tie New York nt monument com- mittee announce that thoy are disgusted with their failure to make the country pay for a local monument to Gen. Grant. Wirit Gardner on top, Cummings still in office, Morgan unconfirmed, and Dr. Miller fitteen hundred miles from home is it any wonder that the packing-houso organ feels considerably broken up, dis- figured and d Ir THE county comm spend moro time in - examining the needs of their constituents, and less in discu; ing such schemes as tapping the Elkhorn and lowering the court house, the public would be correspondingly benefitted. WE cannot see why the gas company should object 1o the city council regu- lating its prices, as this is a case whero regulation docs not regulate. It does not make any difference how much the prico is reduced the bills amount to just ahoug the same, Ths thifig that needs regula- ion is the meter. A rerrous Chinaman has been discov- ered in a laundry at Waterbury, Conn. It is now in order for the laundryman to sue the local newspaper making the an- nouncement for libel. The BEE has such a libel suit now on its hands, the plaint- iff being Wun Lung, who wants $1,000, as compensation for the damage inflicted by the statement thatit was rumored that there was a case of loprosy in his estab- lishment. THE committee in the Burr disbarment case at Lincoln has made a report to the ef- fect that Burr's action, in connection with that of Commissioner Saville, regarding the relense of the murderer Zimmerman was illegal, unwarranted, unprofessional and without precedent. The committee has done its duty; now let the saupreme court do its duty. If it does, Mr. Burr will at least be disbarred. He can con- gratulate himself if he escapes without any more serious punishment. THE insurance companies have issued an ingenius diagram to show the relation existing between the various causes of fires in this country. A cirele ctit radiat- ing lines is used to indicate on the cir- ewmference the proportion of each cause to the total loss sustained in 1884, In- cendinvism takes up ninety degrees of the circle and defective flues and lamp accidents rank . next, surmise of the underwnitersis cor insurance tempts policy holders to destroy over twenty-five milion dollars’ worth of property each year in order to realize more than thoy could secure from honest sale, Dr. MiLLgg telegraphs from Washing- ton to deny that he has made any offer of compromise to J. Sterling Morton and intimates that the packing house faction is “still for gor he war of exter- mination” which the violent leader of the P. H. D. promised so long ago does not appear to vrogress so rapidly as was ex- pected. There have been a few ex- changes of shots between the pickets, but 08 most of the fighting has been at long range with no more eflicient weapons than bellows, the earnage up to dute ha not’ been appreciable. Now that the editor of the packing house organ has re- turned to Washington, developments of some kind or another may.confidently be expected, GENERAL SHERMAN is out in another interview accusing General Irye of garbling his letter to Lieutenant Scott in which his comparison of Grant and Ge eral C. F. Smith occurred. Sherman suys he shall now publish the Jetter entive and w how a malignant slunder was isted from a communication in which he intended to culogize Grant instead of detracting from his fame. The general " insists that he is hounded by the press, he knows not why; accuses Dana of having been a spy during the war and thinks that the Ame n people might be better employed than i giving moral support to a set of harpies who are camping on his trail to wickedly assml lus reputation General Sherman is needlessly worred over the attacks of the p fighting the battles of the war over again at a distance of nearly a qus tury and printing the criticisms of high privates and subalterns on their old com- manding oflicers with a cheerful disre- » d of the facts of history and the i ds of decenc However unforiu- nate Shorman may be in the use of the pen, the American people ean never for get how bravely ana patriotically he ielded the sword in defense of national ¢ . His place in the aflcetions of the * Public is secure. Not oven the garrulity * of approaching old age or the foolishly - aggressive defense. which the general . makes cau affect it b Wooden Pavements Untiealthy. There is no fact relative to paving more clearly settled above question of dispute than that wooden block payements are unhealthy as well as short lived. Euro- pean and American engineers agree per- fectly on this point. M. Tonssagrives, the eminent professor of hygiene at Montpelier, France, says: “The hygienist cannot look favorably upon a stroet covering consisting of a porous substance capable of absorbing organie matter and by its own decomposition giving rise to &0 large a surface cannot be regarded as insignificant. I am convinced that a ¢ with a damp elimate paved entirely with woud would soon become a city of marsh fev General Q. A, Gillmore, in his work on “‘Roads, Streets nd Payements,” re- marks: “The noicome and nosious ex- halations emanating from the al and other putrescent matter collected and held in the joints of these pavements cc stitute another sanitary objection to th use in populous towns. The joints com- prise, after enlargement by wear, fully one-third the entire area of the carriage- way, and under the averago the stir- ace of filth exposed to evaporation cov- ers three-fourths of the entire street This foul organic matter, composed largely of urine and the excrement of different anim held in the joints, ruts and gutters, where 1t undergoes putrifactive fermentation in warm, damp weather and becomes the fraitful source of noxious eflluvium, or it floats in the atmosphere and penetrates the dwellings in the form of unwholesome dust, i tating to the eyes and poisonous to the organs of respiration. This is the voice of science in reply to the question whether wooden pavements are healthy. It is reinforced by the opinions of Dr. Cyrus Edson of the New York health bureau, of the health oflicer of Chieago, and by the consent of the medical faculty in every city which has gone into the costly experiment of exten- ve paving with wood. Diseases of tie throat and lungs, diptheria, and low fevers follow in the wake of wooden bloc! Is such a pavement a cheap pavement at any price? This is the ques- tion which heads of families in Omaha must answer to their own satisfaction before committing themselve favor. Repaving and Repairing. The parties who are using such strenu- ous efforts to place wooden pavements on all the districts ordered d this yearby the council, including business stre and streets which will be busines streets beforo the cedar block nuisanco well settled on its sand foundstion, find that there is a strong feeling of oppo {ion to theix ochemes on the part of tax payers who have already paid for a solid and substantial pavement in the districts already paved. The prop owners who selected a durable material because they were business men and knew that repaving a paved street W about as expensive as paving an un- paved street are not inclined to aceept the argument which the wood block syn- dicate of son-in-laws and cousins are now using at their expenso to boom a cheap paving material in Omaha. The; insist that there is a differonce betwe repairing and repaving under the 'te provision and resent the statement ti when the wooden blocks are crushed out of usefulness the tax-payers at large, and not the abutting property owners, will be called upon to foot the bills of putting the strects into passable condition. They are correct. Repairing pavements and relaying pavements are two very diflerent matters, as some of our tax-payers will find to their sorrow, before many years have past. The charter provision places no premium on individual niggardliness at the expense of the city at large. The men who have been wiso enough to pave our streets with solid stone will not be called upon to foot the bills for repay- ingin front of the proverty of citizens who selected their pavement without ri gard to any other quality but its cheap- ness. No such a scheme as thatof which the advoeates of wooden blocks are now openly boasting will ever be carried into operation in Omaha. When the stone blocks wear out the abutting property will be taxed for new stone blocks. When the wooden blocks are pounded into pulp the pavement will be replaced at the pense of the men who chose a cheap pavement because it was cheap. The taxpayers at large will not be charged with their mistake. Repuiring and re- paving are two diflerent words. They will be so interproeted by future city coun- cils and eur courts if the question should over be seriously discussed by those in- terested. Taken From a County Jail, The Douglas county grand jury has made commendable reform in the usual cut and dried report upon the condition of the county jail. The duty of examining the jail, of hearing complaints of prison- ers,and of making such recommendations as are ealled for in the interest of health, cleanliness and security, has been per- formed heretofore by our grand juries in a perfunctory and shiftless manner. The reports handed in have usually stated that the grand jury as required by law visited the county ail and feund every- thing in an excellent condition, A few visiting juries have ventured to suggest several needed changes, but the couuty board have not found it necessary to com- ply with the recommendations made. The last grand jury had as its foreman Lx-Sheriff Burley, and there seems in consequence to have been a more than usnally rigid investigation of the The visitors make important recom- mendations. They find that the inside walls and ceilings of the building are dirty, and that the iron aud wood works need painting, as sanitary precautions, that the cells are overcrowded and the hammocks worn out, that there are no laundry provisions, that the jailor 1s overworked and that the incarcerating of incurable insane prisoners with eriminals and their confinement in dungeons should be stopped. The grand jury concluded abors by pa resolutions that this report be brought by the district court to the attention of the county com- wmissioners in order that it should not be pigeon-holed like its predeces: 1t is to hoped that the county commisssioners will find it to their interests to act on these suggestions promptly. It is refresh ing to the public to find that there can be any oflicisl suggestions about county matters which do not come direetly from the board of county commissioners Their mounopoly of county atters has thus far been very complete. If the re- port of the grand jury stirs up the board to a little work outside of the ordinary routine business of allowing their own pay and mileage and cancusing on street corners, the public will be corresponding- 1y benefitted The Driven Well Decision. Although the driven well monopoly patent has now expired by limitation, the courts have just finished their series | of decisions upon the validity of the pat- noxious minsmi, which proceeding from | ent. The recent action of the United States supreme court in dismissing ten cases of appeal involving the right to royalty fully aftirms the title of Colonel Nelson Green to the patent in Guestion The result of this last d fon will have no t upon late users of the invention, but it takes the ground from under the feet of those who have been resisting the payment of royalty for nearly ten years past. This final action of the supreme court will be interesting, therefore, to thousands of people throughout the country who have been using the tube or driven well to obtain water for domestic purposes. tion was once before decided by beneh of the supreme court. The cases in question were those appealed from the United States cireuit court of New Jer- sey before Judge Nixon. In this connec- tion a short resume of the struggle be- tween the people and the drive well monopoly will not be uninterest- mng, and we condense the fol- towing from The Springfield Republican: The bitterest kind of a fight against the collection of royalties was made in Plain- field and Westfield, New Jersev. Public meetings were held, a defense fund was established, as has been often the case in other states, and the best legal talent en- gaged. The taking of evidence and the varlous arguments were a continual drama on account of the deep public interest and number of people made liable to damages in case an attempt to break the patent failed. Judge Nixon’s decision, however, was strong for the patent upon all the points at issue. A new organization was at once effected and money raised to carry the case to the supreme court, and for nearly th s the owners of the patent for New Jersey have waited the slow pace of that overcrowded court. During this period the patent ran out by virtue of the seventeen-years' limitation, and the Plainfield combination, as the day for argu- ment drew near, concluded not to go into court, 'The supreme court has dismissed the ten appeals, putting all the costs upon the defendants, and thus affirming the decision of Judge Nixon which establishes the patent. When the Green driven well case caine be- fore the United States supreme court, abouy four years ago. several days werg consumed with the argument. 15 fipeal belng made from Judge Gresham's decision (circuit court) in Indiana. The decree of the In- diana cireuit court in favor of the patent was aftirmed, and the defendants settled, paying costs. But before that the following circuit judges liad sustained the Green patent after long and expensive suits, in which printed evklence covering as much space as three of Webster's dictionaries was taken: Judse Charles L. Benedict of New York, Judge John F. Dillon of Minnesota, Judge Samuel Blatehford (now of the United States su- preme court) of New York and Judge Solo- mon L. Withey of Michigan, ‘The number of distinet contests, ranning over years and in- volving thousands of dollars of outlay upon both sides, have neen about twelve, and the smaller cases are numbered by the hundreds. 1n only one case—in Iowa—has there been any opinion adverse to the Green patent, de- cisions having been rendered in the cireuit court in that state both ways, For twenty- two years Colonel Green and those associated in business with him have been subjected to a series of bitter contests, and whether the numerous users of an invention which has so simplitied the subject of water supply wi still continue to dispute the clalms for royals ties, remains to be seen. The President and the Senate. The report of the senate judiciary com- mittee upon the right of the confirming body to freo nccess to all official papers in its investigation of appointments to office and the causes incident thereto, isa full and complete discussion of the issue between the president and the s The constitutional mandate unequivocal. ‘The president cannot make an appointment unless it is made by and with the advice and consent of the senate.” The clause in itself presupposes the right of inquiry. Itis a duty imposed upon the senate, and one which has been exercised since the carly days of the re- public. The right of congress to any oflicinl paper in the posscssion of the president or of any of the departments never before been seriously ques- tioned. Public policy has at times demanded a delay in furnishing the re- quired information, but it has always been given. How far correspondence relating topatronage may or may not be official will now be the chief question under dispute. If official changes are oniy to be made “for cause,” as Mr. Cleveland has so often declared, the causé when stated in writing to the re moving power certainly becomes of an oflicial nature. It terminates official tenure and forms the basis for a new ap- pointment with which the senate is called upon to deal in its adyising and confirm- ing capacity, Upon the theory of the civil seryice reformers, to which class Mr. Cleveland pretends to belong, there can be no question as to the position which the president ought to occupy. Removals being only made for cause it isdue to the senate that the cause should be known in order to afford it a J ing in or refusing to en- dorse the exccutive in the new appoint- ment. The president, however, stands “on his prerogatives” so called and denies the right of the senate to inquire into the reasons for changes in oftice. The senate through its committee ali- ates by threatening to refuse to confirm appointments where they are denied proper information as to reasons for re- moval. Mr, Cleveland began his admin- istration by boasting that it would be conducted *‘behind glass doors. At the first movement to examine its workings he has pulled down the blinds, Tue case of Schwenck against the rail- road for discrimination against his busi- ness contrary to the provisions of the Nebraska statutes has been “satisfactorily scttled” by the railroad commissione The railroad company wrote to the board promising not to do s0 again and the board triumphantly parades the letter as an evidence of the value of its services to the shippers of the state. Poker playing junkets, useless reports on trivial subjects, and two-for-a-cent man- dates to the railrond managers to per- form acts which are of no earthly um- portance to the public at large comprise the entire record of the $10,000 a year comnussiva which the railroud managers and their tools have foisied upon the peo- ple of this state to sedve in the interests of corporate monopoly. Dr. MiLLER has been heard from in re- gard to those letters, He gives devout thanks for their publication and speaks of a'‘smelling committee.” It didn’t need a high sense of smell to discover those peculiar documents. Thoy were too rank to remain undetected POLITICAL POINTS, Papillion Times: The Grand Army boys will give Gen, Thayer a big boost for the re- publican nomination for governor. Chicago Times: Mr. Watterson Is better, and_ with the careful nursing of the eyed goddess of reform, who is constantly at lils bedside, he will probably pull ttrough. The president said to an Ohlo man the other day: “I would rather dispose of a dozen offices to any other state than one in Ohio. They are the worst lot of wranglers there I hiave to deal with,” Theearly worm in state polities always runs his risk of becoming the prey of the late bird. He then has a vanishing realization of the folly of previousness and the bearing of the observation is seen in its application. Senator Evarts, S nd Logan, as- sisted by young Mr. Foraker, of Ohio, with other prominent statesmen, have announeed their intention to take part in the grand re- publican powwow and banquet at Detroit Feb, 22 Congressman Smalls, in a Jong letter to the Charleston News and_Courier, says_that he has no sympathy at all with the Cleveland administration, as has been stated. 1le says every colored officholder has been removed who was appointed from South Carolina, Chicago Tribune: Minister to Turkey Cox Is visiting the land of the Pharaohs, and will probably visit the pyramids, 1t is under- stood that Mr. Cox has about abandoned all liope of ever seeing anotlier demo eratic pyr- amid in this countr. forini N That Catechism. Papillion Times. Rosewater’s “packing-louse catechism” is the most interesting political reading of the season. PRSI o Honest Confession. St. Lowis Republican. The St. Joseph Gazette s improved by a new head-line. It might be still further im- proved by anew head. =) The Recal Test. Boston Record. Nebraska thinks she is soberer with high license than Towa and Kansas are with pro- hibition, Certainly the people seem bettel satisfied, as a whole, with the sy Cienalieget Room for Further Imvproven " Philadelphia Call. Weare apt to smile supereilliously at the man who rides a hobby. But if he brings up at the trough of financial specess we are the first to greet lim with a grip of approbation, BRI Stick to Catalpas and Basswoods, Fremont Tribmne, Dr. Miller is not a success at propagating the olive branch. He shoukl conting himself to Ius catalpas and bass wagds. No Money, No' Love. Chicago Neiws The New York postoflice was not but dened with valentines this year. Sentiment in that clty is reduced to a simple fijancial - proposi- tion. No money, no love. Solitary and Alone. Chicago; Times, It is a little curious that the leaders in the cause of spelling reform should be a_states- man from Chicago, for the editor of a Chicago republican organ is the only man in this city that can’t spell. Al Reduced to a Dime Museum Basis, St. Louis Republican. The admission fee to the woman suffrage convention at Washington has been fixed at 10 cents, When such an aggregated and mammoth attraction cuts to the dime museum basis, it is a question whether the legitimate eircus business can suryive the demoraliza- tion, — The Railroad Commission, Grand Island Independent, ‘The answer of the B. & M. railroad grant ing a number of requests, made by our vail- rord commissioners, has been published. “They have reference o the usual amount of little grievances. A new pump has been put in, an nddition to some buildings has been allowed, and such similar improyements of swall importance have been granted. That isall, and doos not justify the great and costly Institution of a $10,000 commission, es- tablished, against the expressed will of the people, at the instance of the railroad mag- nates. The great question of railroad rates and diseriminations, on which the fate of Nebraska depends, has not been touched, neither by the requests of the commission, nor by the gracions grants of the railroads, and never will be reached by such an institu- tion, e — Prohibition in Kansas. Philadelphia Record, No one denies that the prohibitory liquor law of Kansas with its spy system and its severe penalties, has succeeded n shutting up the open saloons of that state, But this fact proves nothing in favor of the law. If prohibition has increased the consnmption of ardent spirits, which can be easily smuggled, and has at the same time decreased the con- sumption of beer and light wines, its effect has been injurious, notwithstanding the large Immigration to Kansas of which the governor so enthusiastically speaks. An en- emy of prohibition might urge with as much Justice that the immigration to Xansas has not been checked because the new-comers generally understood that the law would not greatly interfere with their habits, But the true reason is that prohibition has small in- fluence in determining the choice of an immi- grant in one way or another. e g A Change, The Rambler, In days of a past that has flown. Wiien dead folk were biiried, | ween, The dying one feebly woiild groan : “Please sce that ny grave is kept green,” Cremation, alas, has to-day ‘This saying complaiely abolished, Tt now s the custom 4o 82 “Just see that my wen 15 kept polished.” e L STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings, The invahd o of Dr. L. Walker of Seward died at Hot Springs, Ark., last week, A broken rail ditehpd a Missouri cifie freight train at ‘Dunbar Thursday and wrecked eight cars. The humorist of the Hastings Nebras- kan indulged in a surfeit of McNish winstrel gags last week Ex-8enator Filson of Richardson county died suddenly Saturday, He F wife and seven chi At the election in April Wayne will vote on the question of issuing 6,000 worth of bonds to build waterworks Silas C. Johnson, a Brownvyille photo- grapher, gazed into the ca of u gun sarrel and died instantly. He knew it was loaded The baly of Bruce E. Rawson, who perished” in Thayer county during the storms of the latter half of January, was recovered last week. Humboldt has decided that a $4,000 creamery would meet the wants of the community, and a stock company - is being organized to operate the plant, A Wilber man isconfident that he the right track to a coal vein, and has in- vested in machinery to develop his belicf and sink a prospect hole A raflroad eating house will soon be open for business at kmerson. Split s, frog joints, and old ties will be od up in first-class style. Three men undertook to drive a team over the ico on a creok near Ord. The ice collapsed, the team was drowned, and tho men escaped with a ducking. A Wymore man swallowed a teaspoon- ful of "leather glue, mistaking it for es. sence of old rye. A pound or less of alts saved him' from being glued to a coflin, Ord is chirping merrily oyer the cor- tainty of a railrond, several elevators, mills, business blocks and_ residences be- ing added to her material wealth the present year. A. 8. captured in Neligh last ceck. Ho was bagged for selling liquor without a town permit. He is one of the few men whose natural cunning blends with his name. Danicl McCouen, a Plum Creek stone- mason, aged 53, while dancing a cotillion hboring ranch, suddenly threw wl and fell to the floor a‘corpse Heart diseas sement, Carhisle & Co. have secu the contract for grading the Missouri Pa cific extension from Weeping Water to Lincoln. The job must be completed by the 1st of August. With a £25,000 court house and £60,000 worth of waterworks, Plattsmouth ean actually overlook the' surrounding mud hills and smile on her envious rivals, Her smiles are measured with a yard stick. L. L. Luse, a Methodist itinerant, and editor of the Blue Valley Blade of Wilber, has skipped the country, N wreekod ceral families with wolfish piety, be- sidos borrowing all the money his ac- quaintances would lond. The business men of Oakdale, Antelope county, are negotinting with tho officials of the B. & M. 1o secure a branch to that town. A committee hus been appomted to ton the managers and pa e them with arguments. North Bend trots out a prominent can- didate for membership in the Amal mated Order of United Liars., His di tinguishing scrvices weve the finding of three hve hogs in a snowdrift where had been buried five weeks. The Is fattened on 1cicles and ground Robihson, clerk of Howard y, borrowed $1,600 from a Michi- gan friend and gave him a mortgage on apicce of land which he never owned nor had an interest i Heis now under bonds to appear for trial 1 the district court, Weeping Water is jubilating over the prospeot of great good to flow from the construction of the Lincoln branch of the Missouri Pac from _that point. The it) donated the fair grounds, a tract of lifteen acres, to the company on con- dition that o depot and shops™ are built thereon. A wrinkied rake of Neligh led an in- fant of thirteen to the eounty judge’s oftice and demanded a license to marry her. His gray Lairs and furrowed phiz turned blue with rage when the docu- ment was refused him, The judge gave the child a tongue spanking and sent her hom A man named Collins mounted a buck- ng broncho in a stable in Atkinson last week. The animal suddenly elevated its pinal column and Collins’ head erashed against a sill of the tloor above. A see- ond_ boost sent Callins to_ the ground headforemost with the animal on top. The broncho survived, but Collins died in two hours. Grant Horton, a Syracuse machinist, attending t pairs in T, W s mill, ¥ By the moyin hinery and whi around the shaf ing twenty or thirty times before h collar button broke and let him drop. He kicked a number of holes throu the ceiling, lost his shirt and vest and portion of his sealp, but otherwise e: caped injury. Plattsmouth is gettmg down to busi- ness on the proposed county court house The board of trade committee has re- ported 1n favor of n §25,000 building to be i by a stock company. The articles of incorporation have been prepared and subscriptions to the stock are already pouring in in suflicient number to wa rant the success of the scheme, The Rev. W, N, Littel, of Norgh Bend, has been cut down in the heighth of his usefulness by the elde nd forbidden to preach in’his chu ms to he innocent of the charg ing the mbs of his flock, and confesses that “when 1 try to express mf' conte ulnt of as that (of the elders) {he anguage stands abashed and Ly rfy of words to do justice to the subject.” The peovle of Milford have got them- selves Into a muss over th It seems that after the w: been built the bonds whi for them werc found to be illegal, and new clection was called to vote other bonds, In the meantime the water works collapsed, and when the el ame off the bonds were defeated. Thereupon the contractors, Cocklin & Noakes, sued the villnge for $999.99 and secured judgment. Towa Items, A snuff factory has been started at Boone. Tama county 1s overrun with cholera, Twelve saloonkeepe the Marshalltown jail. Edward Clark, n Burlington fish ped- dler, committed suicide last week. The new opera house at Washington has a seating capacity of 900 and cost 28,000, Cherokee county has at present of school money loaned to farmers in the county. A Tama prohibition spy and informer has been jugged in Davenport for selling bootleg whisky. Lewis Intermill, a brakeman on the Chicago & Northwestern railvond, wus run over by his train and instantly killed at Lake City on Tuesday. He catight his foot in a frog. Prohibition pumps are fashionable in Des Moines. Worked by bartenders, beer comes out; but let an officer of the a hand at the pump and only comes forth, J. Campbell of Des Moines has a y old document in the shape of an almanae. It is of Irish origin, was pub. lished m 1718 and has been handed down for two generations, Its owner values it us highly as he would a swall farm. “The **preacher” is the latest swindling dodge being worked in central Towa. e calls on his way distributing bibles, and often presents the family with a hand- handsome book. He then asks for dinner or other meal, and takes a receipt for 25 cents paid for the meal. A few mouths later the neighboring bank calls for the payment of & note for §150.25. Jacob Mann, who has lived where he now does in Linn Grove, Linn county, for more than forty yi came into Butler’s bank at Springville one day Lust week with $800 in old series, first issue, of government greenbacks. ‘The money was sewed in an ol boot leg with whaung le nd had not seen the light for twenty ys It was exchanged for zold, to be sited where the green acks lay, where it will do the least good. hog are drying outin Dakota. Flandran is to have a § and a $10,000 school house. The Yankton foundry, after a three years, hus sturted up again 000 roller mill rest of | | incon About 28,000,000 pounds of freight were carried into the Black Hills last year. Aberdeen proposes to give a bonus of £30.000 to aid & ailrond from that point to Pierre Oscar Huff, the saw mill man of Buf- falo Gap, was held up last week and re licved of Dakota is well off in way, having five univer mies, two seminaries, three cc a sehool of mines, Custer people are jubilant over the fact that_ the postmastor general has adver: tised for bids on a mail s from Cus ter to Buffalo Gap, six times cach way per week. A Yankton man figures it that under the present reduction caused by the com- ing of the Northwestern road, the people of Yankton save $15,000 per year upon coal alone, which will pay the intereston the bonds for four years. The Indians Leld a council at Chieyenne agency a _short time since, and décided not to” sell any more wood to the white people. The Indian who breaks the agreement will have his government sup plies cut off for one year, W. W. Mellvaine, spec f the land department of the Fargo district, re ived notice Tuesday final action Iad been suspended on 1,283 cash entries in that district, 997 being pre-omptions, 286 commuted homesteads and 20 military bounty land warrant entries, Mr. M¢. Lvaine is requested to personally invosti- gate cach case and report thoreon, which will be done | ssued The Episcopalians of Cheyenne have decided to invest $20,000 in a’church. A site for a large and elegant hotel was seeured in Cheyenne last week., The building will cost $60,000. Cheyenne secured a date Mapléson opera company, Hawk us the star, on a $2,000. Three new counties are to be organized in central Wyoming, prepar [ meeting the influx of settlers expected with the advent of the Northwestern railro: The miner 33 ye: from the with Minnio guarantee of of William Hutchinson, a years of age, was found in a [mnlnf water in one of the Almy mines ast week. He was subject to epilepsy, and fell into the water and was drowned. The naked body of Minnie Price, demented negro, was recently found ne: the bridge between Laranie and Fort Saunders. She had eseaped from her keeper the previous night without stop- ping for her clothes and died from exposure. Cheyenne is still urging the B, & M. to build ‘a branch to that town, The road is now engaged In surveying northward from Sterling, Colorado, “via Egbert, Laramie_county, Wyoming, in the direc: tion of Fort Fetterman. It is reported that the B. & M. will be the first road to reach that competing point. Colorado. Seventy per cent of Custer county’s school children ave girls. There ave tour _incorporated towns in the state at an attitude of 9,000 feet. “Half amillion dollars,” says the Demo erat, “have been sunk i’ the newspaper business in Leadville in the past seven years, and yet a new crop of idiots talk of coming” in to supply a *long-felt” want.” The silver factions in the state are go- ing cra; the subjeet of the big dol- 1 What was known as the Belford Silver convention was held in Denver last w and among the resolutions adopted was one that the question of un- limited coinage be submitted to a vote of the people of the Uni —— arrent Developments of Journalism. Springfield (Mass.) Republ. The Republican is sparing its repde many of the inflictions and developments of the journalism of the period. Thes clopments are not hopeful; the press seems to have a run of eruptions which, like chicken pox and the measles, will pass away after a time and be succeeded @ houlthy reagtion, Let us hope at least that this will be the case, One of the rampant features of journal- m just now is what is called the **syndi- cate’” busine: There is obviously a vropriety in several mewspapers com- bining, if they wish, to purel story from some popular author, ducing the cost and spreading beford several communities wide I'rom this iden the effort is now mtroduce the syndjcate into ey Thy Republieal {x in constant re ofttrs “of matter of this from people who furnish — everthing from a leading article to an item. Not long ago we were off fuli set of able art distingu st of contribulo nator presidents of col statesmen. The agaregate one sheet of letter paper w 2. Unfortunately none of the dis- ished personages named offered to sit ¢ n]?' till 2 o'clock in 1ing to insure that quality which journalism from = essay- writing—namely, that the work be done to. match the da ‘The Republienn de- clined to buy its editorial by the bale. fecling that there might be as wide a dis- tinction between the syndicate product and the natural growth as there is be- tween baled hay and a meadow of Junc timothy and buttercups. The former 13 nicely compressed and put up for com- mereial purposes, and th alter is per- haps rank and with some swale, but it is at least fresh, yndicate legters are also a current staple of the trade, We are offered a dis- patch every night from the oflices of o e Ay AR dishing up everything in fine style, throwing in pic- tures, cuts, ete., dispatehed in the mails. tion among “the boys" in the < oflices is running W mad ex- cesses and within a fortnight p have dropped from $10 or §20 & week for thes precious productions Lo $5 and §8, finally pering oft with the oflfer of a dramatic letter for §2 2 week. We shall soon be offered a premium (o print them and should want & large one in cash to it an inducement, Specimen: inclosed. A “dramutic lette up of a cut of some third-r few commonplace observations miorals and wages of the ballet, a tedious “little story” of managerial nobodi 1d no news to speak of. Next to W t bunkers' eirculars, it is the most uential of the amateur journal istie efforts of the metropolis, and its sole basis is e.r..mm\r the opportuuity for dead-head admissions to the theaters, Some of the more pretentious of th syndicate letters are a crazy-quilt of ps graphs, signed by the writers’ numc Gov. Ro n's idea that there would be win o the profession if this practice ne general, is one t often oeeurs vers of journalism from the out The answer to it is coniplete and ug from the experienceof the | Uis easy L0 see that a person . like the governor or any who oocipies & high civil ofiice, > niterances of a news- 1 that he would like to see ame attached to the slur, the cavil or the condemnation. If it were 50 attached in most cases, the per- son attacked would be no more enlight ened. His cause of offense, if he chose 10 50 regard it, would lie against the pro prietor and chief editor, known parties, nd justly. The most reckless journal m in the world is that of the signed ar ticles, as in France, where the dueling code is the only corrective. The most reful, painstaking aud considerate sility offe s of course come here and the mor distingni: on the profe: under ¢ body may ol apor, where the %um-nnl is everything and the person nothing. No profession requires the erucifixion of ambition to personal oredit and ro- nown to the extent that journalism does. In mostof the other professional vocas tions each man's work stands before the world for what it is; this is eminently so of the three professions which used to be the only ones. But the instant the de. mand arises for organized and combincd effort, that instant it is nocossary to merge the individual claims m the common end and the common famo. The dircctory of a great railroad, for in- stance, is a combination of a large num- ber of persons, one or two chiefs, others subordinate,—of whom not one can just- ly say, “I am the railroad.”” In the same way, & modern newspaper stafl'is a close organism of men working to embody the events and opinions of the day, The fivst requirement of that or the journal itself be its own ¢ y spokesman, and the first task of the learncr of the art is to put seals to his ural ambition for personal recogni- tion and learn to his work go forth over no signature but that of the journal h he serves. The “'sie vos non principle which is often resented in A profossions is the first law of jour- m. Not for himself, but for his journal and to the eredit of his journal, is the rigid requirement of suecessful journalism. This is €0 severe a cross tha mught never beaceepted as a’matter of choice, but is a matter of necessity. One of 1l wholesome features of yndieate writing is that it tends to tho letting down of the law of anonymi of a_column or two of signed” slop from N will be paid perhaps more than a o offica editor At Boston, who gives 8 of hours of exhau i that his j and fa oil daily 1 present carefully news and leading issues of the day, Who is going to sign matter to which more than one mind contributes, as is the case with most of the best journ products? It is preposterous, The imorint of the journal should be its only visible personality. The few cases of signed correspondonce supported by largo and well-edited journals furnish the merest gossip and abble,—such stull’as unsigne ir\um](l RO into the wasto basket. The journals which print and pay for such matter at rates currentl; sported are degrading the popular taste and_depreciating the position and opportunity of the rank and tile of the profession, the most faithful and valuable members of their own stafls, - The Injunction Continued, Judge Wakeloy this morning rendercd judgment in the injunction case of thy city against John L Radick, 6 provent the latter from putting up a wooden building on the corner of Twenty-third and Cuming stre He decided ad- versely to Mr. Redick, and continued the tempor injunction now in forco. Judge Wakeloy decided that the city charter gave full power to the mayor and council to restrict the city fire limits, and that notwithstanding the fact that the contract to put up the wooden buildi was let before the passage of the new fir ordinance, the ction of the structure would be illog ting What Might Be, rring to the insinuates the gas company to shut off' the it is forced to a reduotjon of rates, u¥ Attorney Connell said pesterday thal such a proceeding would be in direct yiolation of its franchise rights. “If the company was to take any such step as that,” he'concluded, it would forfeit the franehise which it elaims to have ob- tained from the old company, and under which it is now operating. Its plant would be forfeited to the city, and it would be foreed to suspend business,” The D. C. C. P. A. bles outside of the city met hall, Twenty-fourth and Cuming street, and formed a Douglas County Constables' Protective associa- tion. J. R. Rustin was elected president and F. W. Kile sceretary. The country are not to be ‘ontdone by their city cousins in the matter of organiza- tions and will form o hard pool aguinst the justice shops. The con at Wolf's Looking for Her Husband, Mus. Mary Tenny, of Fremont, reported at police headquarters Saturday und re- t the police be notilied to look husband He has been away or some time, it seans, and There to-day. So far bus fuiled to find hi and being hout money or friends, is at a loss to know what to do. from home A Small Blaze. Sparks flying from a defeetive stove pipe upon the Ded caused a_small | in the sccoud story of w building on Seventeenth street and St. Mary's ave- oceupi ¢ William Stocker, the s man, Saturday morning, The blaze s extinguished without ealiing in the artment. The damagewas less pEL A Residents on the South Side complain of the annoyance they sufler when passing under the railway bridges from the drip- ping water and falling sparks. 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